The game runs like crap no matter what your hardware is, and using a grame generation program like dlss just causes a noticible amount of input lag for your mouse and isn't a real solution. I will say so far I haven't had any crashes yet though I probably am jinxing myself by saying that. The game is buggy, not quite a bethesda release buggy but still not great, but bugs are fixable with time. The ingame economy right now is insane, early on you get 300-1000 credits for selling a weapon because you sell everything for 10% of its value and in order to repair armor at 80% it costs 10-20k credits, missions give 600-1000 credits. (I altered the economy with some mods to make it less harsh, but that is only a bandaid solution.) The English voice acting is just awful, not because they are bad, they are but I don't care about that, but because of the wide range of accents of voice actors. Hard to believe I'm in the chernobyl zone when 1/3rd of the people have an english accent and 1/3rd are american. Another issue is the game lost a lot of the charm the old games had. This game has too many "cinematic slop" cutscenes during narrative parts of the game. Not a fan of that. All in all if they can fix the performance issues, balance the economy better, and fix the bugs I give it a 3.5/5. It's a fun game but definitely not a 9/10 like some people claim it is.
The game is filled with bugs, runs like crap, is somehow 150 gigs to download, the graphics menu doesn't give the option to turn off things like depth of field or motion blur. The english voice acting is really bad everyone has an english acceent, guess they couldn't even bother to have some eastern europeans voice the english version. And unfornately the game is missinga lot of the slav jank that made the first 3 games so memorable. It feels like they jumped on too many modern gaming trends that lead to the awful games we have been seeing for the last 5 or so years. Despite what people are claiming its really not much like the older games. Honestly just wait a year or two to play it and maybe the bugs and performance will be somewhat sorted. If they fixed the bugs the game would be mid, but where it stands it is below mid.
I just decided to give the game another try after a few years and 2.0 seemed to have changed a lot of things for the better like making clothing cosmetic and tying armor to the cyber enhancement system. Though about 3 hours in I had encountered enough "quit points" to where I just have no interest in continuing the game. Apparently they added a gang retaliation mechanic to the game where gangs will come after you upon completing certain quests. Problem is that they have overtuned the police system to the point where if a gang shoots at you you get a gta wanted level and then cops also try to kill you, people complained about the lack of police in the game and now there are police on every block, who shoot at you if you breathe in their direction. In the 3 hours I played probably 1 quarter of that was spent running and hiding from police because of this overtuned system. As for the story part of the game, not a fan of that either, the main plot pretty much immediately sets in stone that you're dying and will die in a few months or whatever which is completely antithetical to an open world sandbox game. The amount of cognitive disonance required to engage in any of the side activities or do any exploring while ignoring the main plot which is you're dying and need to do stuff so maybe you wont die is more than I can manage. Anyone that says otherwise about this glaring issue is suffering from severe brain rot caused by years of bethesda writing. I honestly think the game would have been better if they just didn't bother making the massive open world filled with pointless side activities and just had smaller/more linear maps instead. If they wanted to keep the open world then an entire plot rewrite would be in order. Oh well maybe they'll learn from this games shortcomings and make the next game better. Probably not.
I've played both of owlcats previous games and have enjoyed them both immensly though I didn't play them on luanch I heard they were both buggy. That being said this game currently has a lot of bugs, the majority being visual bugs so far with only one requiring a load of a previous save. If you aren't ok with playing an rpg with a buggy experience wait for a few months of patches. I would also like to add that this game has a lot of in depth mechanics like their two pathfinder games so if you're expecting a more casual experience this game might not be for you.
